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Add Order Independent Transparency (#14876)
# Objective

- Alpha blending can easily fail in many situations and requires sorting
on the cpu

## Solution

- Implement order independent transparency (OIT) as an alternative to
alpha blending
- The implementation uses 2 passes
- The first pass records all the fragments colors and position to a
buffer that is the size of N layers * the render target resolution.
- The second pass sorts the fragments, blends them and draws them to the
screen. It also currently does manual depth testing because early-z
fails in too many cases in the first pass.

## Testing

- We've been using this implementation at foresight in production for
many months now and we haven't had any issues related to OIT.

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## Showcase


![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/157f3e32-adaf-4782-b25b-c10313b9bc43)

![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/bef23258-0c22-4b67-a0b8-48a9f571c44f)

## Future work

- Add an example showing how to use OIT for a custom material
- Next step would be to implement a per-pixel linked list to reduce
memory use
- I'd also like to investigate using a BinnedRenderPhase instead of a
SortedRenderPhase. If it works, it would make the transparent pass
significantly faster.

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Co-authored-by: Kristoffer Søholm <k.soeholm@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: JMS55 <47158642+JMS55@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Charlotte McElwain <charlotte.c.mcelwain@gmail.com>
2024-10-07 23:50:28 +00:00
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src Add Order Independent Transparency (#14876) 2024-10-07 23:50:28 +00:00
Cargo.toml Add Order Independent Transparency (#14876) 2024-10-07 23:50:28 +00:00
README.md Add README.md to all crates (#13184) 2024-05-02 18:56:00 +00:00

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